Label holdee foe boxes



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. SNOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

LABEL-HOLDER FOR BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,271, dated November'7, 1882.

Application filed August 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY H. SNOW, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew Improvement in Label Holders for Attaching Cards to Boxes; and I dohereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanyingdrawing, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawingconstitutes part of this specificatiom'aud repre sents in the figure aperspective view of the box with the card attached.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method ofattachingshow-cards to boxes, designed with special reference to that class ofboxes in which the articles packed in the boxes are exposed in the boxesfor sale, and to which cards are usually attached indicating the title,quality, or price. These cards are attached in various ways, but usuallyso that they are easily removed. Hence they are frequently displaced,and in replacing the cards are frequently attached to the Wrong box, andthereby cause confusion.

The object of this invention is an attachment for the card which makesit practically an inseparable part of the box, and yet so that the boxmay be closed should occasion require; and it consists in a hingecomposed of a thin strip of lead or other ductile or non-elasticmaterial, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents one end of the box; B, the show-card; O, the hinge. Thishinge is a strip of thin lead or other similar material, and is securedto both the card and box by any suitable adhesive substance, orotherwise.

The card may be turned to any angle, or

down'into the box, as shown in broken lines, the lead readily yieldingfor such turning, and resting in any position to which it may be turnedwithoutinclination of the hinge to throw the card out of the position towhich it may be set.

In manufacturing the hinge the best results are obtained by coating theexposed surface of the metal with cloth or paper, and coating thereverse surface with an adhesive material which will be softened bywetting, and so that the hinge so made may be furnished to the trade orconsumers to be by them applied; or it may be attached to the box, onlyleavinga portion of the hinge free, so that the purchaser of the box mayattach cards thereto by simply moistening the free portion of'the hinge;or it may be attached to the card, leaving a portion free and projectingbeyond the edge of the card, so that the purchaser of the card may applyit to any box, it only being essential to the invention that the hingeshall be of such a material that Without joint the parts to which it isattached may be set in any desired relative position, and retained inthat position by the hinge, because of the ductility but non-elasticityof the material.

1 claim- The, herein-described improvement in labelholders for attachingcards to boxes, consisting in .a strip of thin ductile non-elasticmaterial attached to the box and card, whereby the card may be heldinany desired relative position to the box, substantially as described.

" HENRY H. SNOW.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, J 0s. 0. EARLE.

